Surprisingly, the U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear the appeal of a New Mexico photographer who refused to photograph a same-sex ceremony. That refusal violated a New Mexico anti-discirmination law, and the New Mexico Supreme Court previously held that Elane Photography lacked a First Amendment protection against the law. Here's what I wrote about that decision in August.

Alice Herz-Sommer was the world's oldest-living Holocaust survivor. She also was, apparently, the oldest-living pianist. Herz-Sommer died yesterday at a London hospital, and Steve Chawkins, one of my favorite LA Times feature writers of the past two years, had a wonderful celebration of Herz-Sommer's life. (Obituary feels like the wrong description.) Still, I found the above video, shot last year, more moving.

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